Category: Humor
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How to Tell Your “Honeyfuggle” from Your “Hooky Bob”
Back in the late 20th Century, during my college freshman orientation, we had a visit from a linguist specializing in regional dialects (or something like that). She instructed us to sit across the room according to our state of origin, from east to west (English-speaking international students were asked to leave*), and marvel at how…
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Flowchart Friday: Are you reading the “right” books?
There’s been a little tension of late around “right” books and “wrong” books. I’ll explore my own philosophy in a longer post, but I can boil it right down for you in this week’s Flowchart Friday.
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A Reader’s Drinking Game, First Edition
[Editor’s note: The idea for this post came from a Book Riot reader on Twitter. So thanks, S.M. Hineline!] You know the rules: When X occurs, you take a drink. It’s simple as can be. And it works for just about everything, from Lady Gaga songs to the Oscars to Russian novels. Here’s our bookish version.…
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Riot Readers Rock: The Best Bookish Limericks
One of the highlights of the Community Manager side of my job here at Book Riot is getting to hang out with you, dear readers. So when Saturday afternoon found me nowhere near a pitcher of green beer and in want of a good giggle, I decided it was time to have some fun. Over…
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#readingfail: Famous Novels I Never Finished
Grapes of Wrath. The turtle in the road is a profound image, it is also just so profoundly sad, too sad to keep on reading what happens to the Joads. I’d rather pretend that they make it to California, and the place really is made out of gold, and the whole story turns into a…
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Flowchart Friday: 50 Shades of Grey Edition
Should you read 50 Shades of Grey? It’s always a hard decision when you’re wondering whether or not to buy into the NEXT BIG THING the publishing world throws at us. Sometimes, it’s awesome (Harry Potter, Hunger Games, you guys rocked). Sometimes, it’s good for a laugh (Mr. Dan Brown, come on down). Sometimes, it’s…
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7 Signs You’re Reading the ‘Right’ Books
There are still a surprising number of people who feel shame when it comes to their reading choices. They may walk into their local bookstores and ask for a copy of Fifty Shades of Grey (not knowing that it’s next to impossible to get in print in the US), but they will be hesitant to…
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Don’t QWERTY, Be Happy?
Before I share this news… Are you sitting down? At your computer? Okay. Look at your keyboard. All those letters on the left? That’s your problem. As if our society wasn’t already too disturbingly divided between right and left, along comes a new study, published in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, which concludes that typing words…
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Jonathan Franzen: Complaining through the Ages
As this week has proven to us all, Jonathan Franzen is a crazy old man who lives in a box under the overpass. Or something. Anyway, he hates a lot of stuff, and people on the internet seem to like writing about all the stuff he hates including, somewhat ironically, the internet. But here at…
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Is Snow White a Badass?
Unless you’re living under a pop-culture rock, you’re aware that the fairy tales are having a moment. On television, ABC’s fantasy-soap Once Upon a Time and NBC’s fantasy-procedural Grimm both rely on the as-of-this-year 200-year-old collection of Brothers Grimm fairy tales. Last year, in theaters we had the dark re-imagining of Little Red Riding Hood…